NP profiles Joss Whedon and Serenity

Two more days.

Two more days.

Oh, right. The link. From theNational Post:

Necessity is the mother of Joss Whedon's reinventions. The 41-year-old writer-director boldly went where he had gone before — not once but twice — because he needed to.

The irresistible impulse first consumed him when his Buffy the Vampire Slayer script turned into a flimsy 1992 movie that bombed both artistically and at the box office. Rather than sulk, Whedon sold his Buffy premise to TV in 1997 and shaped the postmodern piece of Gothic entertainment the way he wanted it done. Seven years later, Whedon had a Buffy hit that went out with a bang last season.

And when Whedon's 2002 sci-fi western TV series, Firefly, was axed after only 11 episodes, he decided to reapply his renovating skills, this time turning the cult-favourite TV show into a feature-length motion picture.